Employment of Asiatics on British Steamers; Free Trade and Protection London, Sept. 5.
The Trade Union Congress Hull to-day passed a resolution empowering the veneral council to vestigate the conditions of labour in eastern countries and also protesting against the continued employment of Chinese and other cheap Asictie Inbour on British steamers, The resolution calls for a Dill to make such' employment legal on British ships west of the Suez Canal, Sept. 6.
The Trade Union Congre rejected a resolution submitted by the Printing, Bookbinding and Paper-workers' Union referring. to trade union differences on the sub-
Ject of free trade, protection and Imperial preference and asking the General Council to approach th Labour Party with a view to est~ abolishing a. joint committee to investigate industries separately and report to the next Congress.
Air. Cook, of the Miners' Federation, said that the resolution was one'of- the most dangerous submitted to the Congress.
Mr. MeNamara on behalf of the textile workers of Lancashire opposed the resolution The Congress adopted a resolition affirming its determined opposition to compulsory orbit
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.